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Long Way Back
02:48
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Long Way Back THawley Binion music BMI © 2015
It’s a long way back to feeling good
It’s a long way back to feeling better
The rain came down hard and it did not stop
Now my soul’s out looking for it’s home
My love was taken be the ill moves of a stranger
It’s a sad lonely place where I stand
It’s one step at a time for a broken heart to mend
It’s a long way back to feeling good
When I go swimming in that deep green sea
I think of all the many ways in which one could easily slip away
But I always return to that shining shoreline
Because that long cold decent is simply no way to die
It’s hard not to question the universes hand
And the twisted ways of the law
So I rebuild my faith one day at a time
It’s a long way back to feeling good
Everyone I know has something to say
And it goes in one ear and out the other
While I appreciate that, there’s no good reason why
Someone killed my baby and it’s just all wrong
When I go swimming in that deep green sea
I think of all the many ways in which one could easily slip away
But I always return to that shining shoreline
Because that long cold decent is simply no way to die
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2. |
Tiny Little Landmines
03:44
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Tecopa California
05:13
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Tecopa, California tHawleyBinion music BMI © 2015
Tell me how does a boy, living in Tecopa
Not die of exposure before he’s even reached the legal age to drive
And who do you know that can get you out of town son
Well I found you standing in the middle of the road
Hoping I would stop and ask
Stop and Ask
Is that wheel chair there the only thing you’ve got round here to entertain you
In this god forsaken desert where’s there’s seemingly no one else around for
miles
And what do you do the day through to keep your mind from abandoning you
I can see you’re very fond of spinning circles round in that chair
That dusty old wheel chair
On that Wednesday that I saw you I couldn’t figure why you weren’t in school
It was just another Wednesday, pressing hard down on that old Spanish trail
Here and Shoshoni, the only gas between Death Valley and Las Vegas
And I’m sure they’ll come a time soon here in your life
When you face out and start your walking
Your walking
Where will you go the day your wings come in
Will you fly or flail around Tecopa for a while
Boy have you ever been kissed, ever had an urge beyond the torture
That is the glow from that city of fools spilling into your nights
Here in Tecopa
How will you rise from here with nary a means to take you
Pray you get washed out, drowned out come a sorely needed rain
12 years old and the burden of your being dying a slow burn
And I bet if you could you’d put a motor on that thing you’re riding now
That dusty old wheel chair
Hey little kid I’m sorry
Hey little kid I’m sorry I never stopped to ask
How do you cope How do you cope
When you’re living, slowly dying
Here in Tecopa California
Tecopa California
How do you cope, How do you cope
When you’re living ever burning
Here in Tecopa California
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4. |
Walking In Circles
04:34
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Walking In Circles
I’m walking in circles over you
I’m walking in circles missing you
The moment you leave here
The whirling begins
I’m walking in circles all over again
I tell myself
Every time you fly
It’s never too long
It’s just for a while
That you leave me here
Left counting the days
And spinning around
With tears on my face
What makes me fall
When you say goodbye
I make all these plans
And then they go by
I can’t seem to move here
Except towards the floor
And I’m walking in circles
On this side of the door
I’m walking in circles over you
I’m walking in circles missing you
The moment you leave here
The whirling begins
I’m walking in circles all over again
The mornings are hopeful
And the night times are too
The loneliest times are the long afternoon’s
When you can’t be here and I can’t be there
When everyone’s somewhere with no time to space
I’m walking in circles
I’m walking in circles
I’m walking in circles
All over again
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5. |
Grace In Mid City
04:03
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It was day time in the door way
It was nighttime in the bar
And I said to you there
From the opposite chair
There are so many questions in this life
But I wasn’t talking about Louisiana
I wasn’t talkin’ devastation
I wasn’t talkin’ common friends
I wasn’t talking about the cruel weather
I wasn’t talkin’ politicians
I wasn’t talkin’ faulty ground
What I was referring to was you and me
I could of brought up all that happened
I could of brought up all the lies
I could of started on things that went down twenty years ago
I guess I didn’t really feel like talkin’
Standin’ in that bar Mid City New Orleans
Where the day would quickly turn to night
Night would bring a whiskey round to the table
Whiskey’d bring a memory to mind
And I saw it for myself, I’d best keep things here tidy
But what I really wanted to tell you
Is about the shape you left me in
And what I really wanted to ask you
Is how you made it all right in your mind
And my dreams went on forever
And in spite of all the things gone wrong
I stayed long in one place in love with you
So we just talked about the music
And we embraced the atmosphere
And we drank a toast to all of those around us
It wasn’t time for stacking up the losses
I didn’t see a point in bending ears
So we just kept all our talk about Lousianna
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6. |
These Days
03:44
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These Days t Hawley binion music © 1993
I’ve taken up reading
I’ve taken up sittin’ by this lamp
The one that stands nearest to the telephone
But I swear I ain’t waitin’ for that phone to ring
It’s not that I’ve grown heavy
It’s just the way I feel since you set me free
It’s not that my clothes don’t fit anymore
It’s just that I’m still carrying your love around with me
It’s just the way I feel
It’s just the way I feel
It’s just the way I feel these days
Blue is the condition when one of us is crying
And the rain falls down
Dark must be the world all around
As both of us are payin’ now for the broken hearts
It’s just the way I feel
It’s just the way I feel
It’s just the way I feel these days
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7. |
Orphan Boy
05:45
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Orphan Boy
An orphan boy keeps me at an arms distance
He won’t give me straight answers, no and he set me up for clues
He makes me want to shake him but he’d probably disappear
He’s not much for hanging out and he makes it very clear
For if an orphan boy were to fall in love with a girl
Surely this would equal his merciless and quiet demise
And he says to me “girl don’t you know when your contemplating loving an orphan
You’ve got nothing to lose but your own sweet little day dream heart”
An orphan boy can steal you with his assembly of thoughts
And I must admit it was his story that slayed me at the start
And it’s his glory in the portrayal that keeps him moving on
Just a little of your sight, just beyond your touch
And I crave his kiss oh, like it’s the last kiss on earth
And he moves like a tide with a mood he can welcome himself
And before you know it he’s packing it out and I feel myself fall
Feeling like an orphan too cause he’s all I want
To love an orphan boy
Its like trying to feed a roving man
And on days when he can feel his heart slip into the right place
He likes to believe that it’s his mama still keeping an eye on her little man
And when he’s lonely he pulls me in closer and the deeper I crawl
To see that orphan boy break down and ball
Like a baby in my arms
I want to love you, hold you close and warm
I want to cover you up, keep you for my own
Oh, I want you, I want you, I want you
Orphan boy
“Yes only love can break your heart”
“Yes only love can break your heart”
“Yes only love can break your heart”
“Yes only love can break your heart”
Orphan boy
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8. |
Green Velvet Coat
05:45
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Green Velvet Coat
There’s more in the words that you don’t say
Than there is that smile that you send
You always deny me In Your Green Velvet Coat
I’m aware when it’s not in the room
And I can feel when it’s coming on
Would you bait a perfect stranger just to watch me watch you down
I can’t seem to make up my mind
To walk away or take more of your sweet pain
Or tell you what’s really killing me in drunk and cryptic undertones
Envy is the color of his jacket
And the same goes for these eyes that burn
We were like fire in the lowlands
Oh the heat and the whir
We knew better and we minded our gap
Still we did wonder up to that rail awfully close
When we spoke of steppin’ up danger
And this weary track that we both chose
Always devising a plan in your
Your green velvet coat
Oh this ride won’t be over with too soon
It takes a thief to find her own kind
I rode with the master
I stepped down to the platform
I checked my bags and I could feel it go
Pull away train, pull away heart
Like a paid for ticket folded in half
And sittin’ in the breast pocket of that green velvet coat
We arrived our final destinations
But with how much grace in tact, from here its hard to say
Oh but I’ll remember a lot of things that were good enough about it
And I’ll remember his boyish face
Where I stand’s a long way
And I can still feel his goodbye hand
Oh but in my mind I’m still beside him
Where the rail parallels the road
And in my mind I’m still ridin’ along side his green velvet coat
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9. |
Call Me
03:20
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Call Me
There was all day long for me to think of you
There’s all night long still for you to call
It’s a lifelong dream that I’ve been adding on to
It’s gonna be a long, long way when I fall from this wire
There’s all night long still for you to call
This house is just a place for holding things
That don’t mean nothing to a life now or then
It’s just a ground from where to run the phone line, tie line, life line
Hoping that you’ll call and you’ll reel me in
I’m on the wire
There’s all night long still for you to call
Morning is a sweet threshold of hope
But it comes an awful drag in the afternoon
Waning sun, waning hours, waning hearts
It’s so lonely here since I’ve not heard from you
Out on this wire
There’s all night long still for you to call, call me
There’s all night long still for you to call
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10. |
Burden Song
06:17
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All night long in my dreams
I pushed a broom all through my sleep
I pushed that broom, but never did my wood floors come clean
All night in my dreams
I pushed that broom all through my sleep
All these years an anchor out
And through the years I’ve dragged it round
Ready down, and steady as she goes
How deep no one knows
All this life with an anchor out
Rarely able, seldom right
Always putting up a fight
That devil man, well he lives here with me
Would you care to take a seat
That devil man, well he lives here with me
I found a bird pushed from the nest
I put her in my pocket vest
I took her home, I fixed her wing
I gave that sweet bird, a pretty little song to sing
I loved that bird, I loved her best
I kept he wrapped up close, always near to my chest
I loved that bird, then she set me free
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My Satellite
02:59
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My Satellite
Such sweet relief you bring me
No brighter star could save me
I look for my sweet relief
Deeper love I needn’t look for
Only a fool would stay fixed on mars
I look for my sweet
My satellite
Sweet satellite
Bright satellite
My one and only
Sweet satellite
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